Survivor Of Delta Crash Flown To Local Hospital 3 From Broward Still In Dallas Area

While family members continued their prayerful vigil at the bedside of critically injured Kathleen Cooper Wright, a fellow survivor of the crash of Delta Air Lines Flight 191 left a Fort Worth hospital Monday and returned to Fort Lauderdale, officials said.

Jenny Amatulli, a 35-year-old Delta flight attendant, was discharged in stable condition and transferred by air-ambulance from Harris Hospital to an unidentified hospital in Broward County, officials said.

``She`s stable and improving but not out of the woods yet,`` said Jim Ewing, a Delta spokesman in Atlanta. ``She`s coming along slowly but surely.``

Amatulli suffered a fractured neck and broken legs in the Aug. 2 crash that killed 134 persons. She was among 31 survivors of the fiery crash on a prairie near Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.

There are now just three victims from Broward County hospitalized in the Dallas area. They are:

(BU) Debbie Katz, a 40-year-old Lauderhill resident who is in critical condition in the intensive-care unit of Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas.

(BU) Leonard Wener, 64, a Pompano Beach resident who is in fair condition at Irving Community Hospital in Dallas.

(BU) Kathleen Wright, 49, a Nova University professor and former Broward School Board member who underwent surgery Friday to amputate her right leg. She remains in critical condition at Parkland.

Wright suffered severe burns and multiple fractures in the crash. The amputation of the leg was necessary to halt the potentially fatal spread of bacterial infection.

Meanwhile, 75-year-old Jean Goldberg of Coconut Creek, originally treated at Northeast Community Hospital in Bedford, Texas, reportedly was transferred to St. Barnabas Hospital in Livingston, N.J.

Officials there would not disclose any information Monday, declining to confirm or deny that Goldberg was even treated at St. Barnabas.

Amatulli, who lives in Fort Lauderdale, was discharged from Harris Hospital in downtown Fort Worth sometime between 2 and 4 p.m., according to an unidentified nursing supervisor.

Amatulli, whose husband, Tony, owns a restaurant, is a longtime South Florida resident who has worked as a Delta flight attendant since 1973.

Meanwhile, lawsuits involving the crash continue to be filed in Broward County.

Homer LeVar of Fort Lauderdale filed suit Monday against Delta, as well as Lockheed Corp., designer and manufacturer of the L-1011 Tristar aircraft involved in the crash.

LeVar`s Broward Circuit Court lawsuit, which does not ask for a specific dollar amount of damages, is on behalf of his wife, Evelyn Frances LeVar, who was killed in the crash.

Attorney Walter G. Campbell alleges in the suit that both Delta and Lockheed were negligent in not equipping the plane with radar detection for wind shear conditions.